The new section 10.1 would read:10.1 Section 10 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (2):(2.1) When appointing members under subsection (2), the Federal Government is to take into consideration the need for members who have knowledge, experience or expertise related to offshore renewable energy technologies and their environmental impacts.
This amendment is easily explained by the fact that the regulator, whose witnesses we've heard from, said itself that it didn't have expertise in renewable energy projects. I find it hard to see how the planning and assessment process can be carried out completely without appropriate expertise. This assessment process could even be compromised. It would be quite normal to specify that the people who are going to do the analysis have the skills to do it.